Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Omkeshwar Singh, head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Unit linked insurance plans are probably the hottest selling product for most life insurance companies today.
Wondering if mutual fund investments can help you make you enough money for your retirement and child's marriage? Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
The holding is expected to come down further as the promoters has pledged the entire holdings over a period of time since September 2006. More institutional lenders are expected to exercise their option of selling the pledged shares to cover margin calls.
Facing acute shortage of trained and expert professionals, corporate houses have adopted the strategy of tying-up with educational institutions to overcome the crunch of skilled professionals in the highly competitive market.
AMCs can invest $7 billion abroad, and $300 million per AMC, but investments are way below these levels. Most equity schemes can invest 35 per cent of their assets abroad and there are schemes that invest only in overseas equity. What's holding them back is that they are not very sure if they can buy these bonds.
HDFC MF witnessed 17% rise in investment in its schemes to Rs 6,462 crore by group companies during May.
For instance, new fund offers of ICICI Prudential, Tata Mutual Fund and Fortis are on, while Religare, HDFC and Principal PNB have applied for launching NFOs.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
'Markets are back in the 15000-16000 range, it's a barometer of confidence as much as it is of economic prospects.'
Sudhanshu Singh, director IBBM, MM Securities, answers your mutual fund queries.
Younger people, who usually have a longer investment horizon which allows them to handle the interim volatility, may go for them.
It is understood in organisations across India that work will come to a near standstill during any India-Pakistan match. During the World Cup earlier this year, productivity dropped across ranks as employees trudged in half-asleep, having been up half the night watching matches. In contrast, Twenty-20 cricket eats up only three hours of productive time, compared to the usual 10.
Three such funds have been launched recently, more are in the pipeline.
rediffGURU Sunil Lala answers your personal finance-related queries.
Critical illness policies by life insurance companies provide a variety of combinations but have a complex fine print.
A study of the top ten mutual funds' equity portfolios as on March 30 reveals that funds bought huge chunks of metal major SAIL, engineering stock KEC Infrastructures, while diluted their exposure to FMCG major ITC.
Mutual funds (MFs) are likely to surpass foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) in terms of anchor investments in initial public offerings (IPOs) for the second consecutive year. In calendar year 2023 so far, MFs have invested Rs 5,577 crore as anchor investors, compared to the Rs 5,417 crore invested by FPIs this year. In 2022, MFs put in Rs 9,026 crore as anchor investment, 21 per cent higher than the FPI tally of Rs 7,105 crore. This marked the first time since 2014 that MFs had outpaced FPIs in anchor investments.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Omkeshwar Singh, head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Nilesh Shah aired his views on the sub-prime crises, after effects of the Budget and FIIs. He thinks Brazil is the best bet amongst upcoming markets due to its natural resources.
Life insurance companies have yet to see the entry of the younger generation in a big way. This was highlighted by N S Kannan, executive director, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, while launching an insurance product for cancer.
In the third part of this five part series on top 25 mutual funds analysed by Value Research we produce the next best five mutual funds that investors can put their money in for the long term.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
This comes on the back of impressive performance in infrastructure stocks in 2006 and in the first seven months of this calendar.
Mutual funds continued to buy into oil and gas, banking and finance, telecom, and media stocks in April
The share of Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) in monthly new business premium (NBP) in the life insurance sector declined to 58.50 per cent in September 2023 from 68.25 per cent in September 2022 -- a drop of 975 basis points -- owing to shortcomings in the product and distribution side of business. However, the market share saw a marginal uptick from the 57.37 per cent recorded in August this year. According to the monthly business data released for September 2023 by the Life Insurance Council, the NBP of LIC up to September 2023 stood at Rs 92,462.62 crore as compared to about Rs 1.25 trillion in the same period a year ago.
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your mutual funds-related queries.
India's mutual fund industry, led by market leaders Reliance Mutual Fund, ICICI Prudential and UTI MF, has witnessed a fall of over Rs 58,000 crore (Rs 580 billion) in its assets during March.Despite the fall, Reliance MF continued to be the most valued fund house in the country with Assets Under Management (AUM) of Rs 90,937.94 crore (Rs 909.37 billion) at the end of March.
Measured by returns in 2013, the top 10 funds had only three from large houses; nimble strategy could be a factor.
rediffGURU Dev Ashish answers your personal finance and mutual fund queries.
State-run UTI Mutual fund has toppled private sector ICICI Prudential to be the country's second biggest fund house, while Anil Ambani Group's Reliance MF has retained its top position.
Life insurance sector in India grew by 41 per cent in 2005-06 due to better performance of country's largest life insurer, LIC, and private players like Bajaj Allianz and ICICI Prudential.
